Go immediately to your dwelling at the conclusion of Training Hours each day.

Lois Lowry -- The Giver

...they reached the dwelling of Governor Bellingham.

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

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...and I came at long last to the dwelling of Saruman.

J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring

Morning passed, afternoon came; but in all the silent waste there was no sign of any dwelling.

J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit

Having already undergone one rainy reason, we knew well its discomforts, and thought of many useful arrangements in the laying-out of our dwelling.

Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson

in the war of 1812, her dwelling was set on fire by English soldiers ... when she was away,

Henry David Thoreau -- Walden

To thee who hast thy dwelling here on Earth.

John Milton -- Paradise Lost

For he came here two days ago and bore them away to his dwelling far off by the roots of the mountains.

J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers

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She was distressed at the poverty of her dwelling, at the bareness of the walls, at the shabby chairs, the ugliness of the curtains.

Guy de Maupassant -- The Diamond Necklace

A long day’s march was before him, his object being to secure a dwelling to which he might take Eustacia when she became his wife.

Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native

It was a surprise to find so clean and comfortable a little dwelling in this New England wilderness.

Sarah Jewett -- A White Heron

they established their dwellings in Middle-earth

J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Return of the King

The gutted structure crouches like a wounded animal amid a labyrinth of crumbling dwellings.

Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes

The roar of the Berg was coming from their right, muted by the dwellings and rows of trees in between.

James Dashner -- The Kill Order

As we get closer to town we pass multifamily dwellings and some outlying businesses—a gas station, a corner shop, a nursery stocked with flowers the colors of autumn leaves: rust and gold and crimson.

Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train

In the early-evening shadows lights glowed softly within the house, radiating a harmony that reminded me suddenly of some of the stately dwellings lining Monument Avenue down in Richmond.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

They passed by the humblest dwellings and an array of well-made adobe homes and apartment buildings.

Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King

Bullets from the fighting cut down civilians with regularity, and mortars pierced the rooftops of family dwellings without warning.

Warren St. John -- Outcasts United

Within a radius of five miles there are, as you see, only a very few scattered dwellings.

Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles

Crumbling stone dwellings of the long-vanished Kayenta Anasazi, the creators of this rock art, nestle in protective nooks.

Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

Just beyond the mosque was a series of attached single-storey dwellings with small shaded porches.

Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

It was autumn, and Laila could make out people in bright tunics on the roofs of mud brick dwellings laying out the harvest to dry.

Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

Peter swerves to the left, down another alley, this one full of cardboard boxes that contain frayed blankets and stained pillows—old factionless dwellings, I assume.

Veronica Roth -- Insurgent

He escorted them to the house, which was one of a long row of the typical frame dwellings of the neighborhood, where architecture is a luxury that is dispensed with.

Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

He saw a slice of Yugoslavia where thatched-roofed dwellings on stilts gave way to rushing torrents of water from below.

Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family’s name.

F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

Joe’s forge adjoined our house, which was a wooden house, as many of the dwellings in our country were,—most of them, at that time.

Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

A hundred earthen dwellings stood on the margin of the lake, and even in its waters, as though the latter had overflowed its usual banks.

And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow-herb straggled over the heaps of rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger patch and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken-houses?

George Orwell -- 1984

Harry sped on, staring around, and soon the dwellings became more numerous; there were gardens of weed around some of them, and he even saw a pet grindylow tied to a stake outside one door.

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

And now that we are acquainted, superficially at least, with the masters and the valets, let us pass on to the dwellings occupied by each of them.

Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

Then I realized the reeds weren’t reeds—they were decaying boards and wooden poles, the remains of simple dwellings.

Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire

Big fancy dwellings with rooms for everything — rooms for sleeping, rooms for eating, even a room to go to the toilet!

Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl

Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings.

Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

Wherefore make unto yourselves friends out of the mammon of iniquity so that when you die they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.

James Joyce -- Dubliners

Others were big two-story duplexes, built as boardinghouses for bachelor miners in the booming 1920’s and later sectioned off as individual family dwellings during the Depression.

Homer Hickam -- October Sky

From the wharves I strolled around and over the town, gazing with wonder and admiration at the splendid churches, beautiful dwellings, and finely-cultivated gardens; evincing an amount of wealth, comfort, taste, and refinement, such as I had never seen in any part of slaveholding Maryland.

Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

However, it has only been in the last decade and a half, ever since Morzan died, that we have dared return to Tarnag and other of our ancient dwellings.

Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

I’d like to appeal to all our listeners to emulate their example, perhaps by casting a protective charm over any Muggle dwellings in your street.

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

In the long and endless dwellings that curved like tranquil snakes across the hills, lovers lay idly whispering in cool night beds.

Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles

As to the reprobates, (though I must own they were much more civilized than before) instead of delightful wood surrounding their dwellings, we found the words of King Solomon too truly verified: I went by the vineyard of the slothful, and it was all overgrown with thorns.

Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe

Only here the dwellings were gone too.

Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness

I am but a poor provincial gentleman, who removeth his shoes before entering the dwellings of the learned.

Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

A few inferior dwellings were first to be passed, and then, about a quarter of a mile down the lane rose the Vicarage, an old and not very good house, almost as close to the road as it could be.

Jane Austen -- Emma

In any case, most Wizarding dwellings are magically protected from unwanted Apparators.

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

And when my father’s house was out of sight and I was come to a green open place in a certain wood where there were no dwellings of men, I dismounted from Hwin my mare and took out the dagger.

C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy

I lost some of my need for the Black ghetto’s shielding-sponge quality, as I clanged and cleared my way down Market Street, with its honky-tonk homes for homeless sailors, past the quiet retreat of Golden Gate Park and along closed undwelled-in-looking dwellings of the Sunset District.